basis of record
Nataf, G. and Cherbonnier, G. (1975). Troisieme contriubtion a la connaissance des asterides de la cote occidentale d'Afrique. <em>Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle (Zoologique).</em> 218: 813-832, 3 plates.
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Identification From Clark & Downey (1992: 270) "The specimens from Cape Cerde and Annobon Islands, Gulf of Guine, identified by Nataf and Cherbonnier (1975) as 'Ophidiaster lymani" are indeed Ophidiasters but cannot be Copidaster lymani; they lack the thick covering membrane invested with flat, scale-like granules also they do not have alternating large and small adambulacral plates on the arms and their pedicellariae have rather short valves in broadly boat-shaped alveoli, unlike the very long, slender valves in narrow, sharply tapered alveoli of lymani. I have examined these specimens and they seem to be Ophidiaster guildingi [details]